Headwear



oct. 6, 1936.` W. KATZ 2,056,276

HEADWEAR Filed Sept. 20,l 1955 vl/Enron; WML/AM KATz.

my @hem HTTOPNEK Patented Oct. Y6, 1936 UNITED sr-*if-EES5 PATENT-formes,g

Application September 20, 1935,:Seral No. 41,348

` olaims. (01.25133) The object of my invention is to make improved headwear. As is well known thereare six or more different stock sizes formens hats. This requires that the manufacturer must make at least sixAsizes, involving the purchase andi..

maintenance of dies, etc. In order for the manu.- facturer tomanufacture a co-mplete line of mens hats, it becomes necessary to havea large investment in stock and material, owing to the necessarydifferent sizes. This same situation is true in the instance of theretailer, who must at all times maintain hats of all sizes on hand.Furthermore if the person who desires to purchase a hat has a head size,which is intermediate the standard sizes, he is unable to secure aperfect fit. I-Ie must either take a larger size, which will be toolarge and t poorly, or he must take the smaller size and expect tostretch the hat on his head. The conventional hat has no elasticity atthe jointure between the crown and the rim. Owing to this lack ofelasticity, it is not possible to properly stretch the hat on the headwithout great inconvenience, or without forcing the material of whichthe hat is made to such an extent that it will be torn or injured.

The specific object of my invention is to produce a resilient or elasticjointure between the crown and the brim of the hat. Sulcient elasticityis produced by the invention herein disclosed, so that the number ofsizes of hats that must be made by the manufacturer and stocked by theretailer is cut in half. In other words by the use of the inventionherein disclosed, it is only necessary to manufacture or stock three hatsizes. Furthermore perfect fits may be obtained by al1 who wear thehats.

The structure, herein described, may be easily and simply made at lowcost, without marring the appearance of the hat and without affectingits wearing qualities.

With these and other objects in view, my invention has relation tocertain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts as willbe hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the drawing, inwhich Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the hat made in accordance with theinvention herein described.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmental plan View of the front portion of thehat before shaping and with the hat band removed.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged inverted fragmental plan view of the front portionof the hat before shaping, with the sweat band removed; that is Fig. 3is a bottom view of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmental sectional elevationtaken-on the' linelll-4 of Fig. 2, showing the jointurev between the crown and brim of thehat .a 1

Fig. 5. is an .enlarged Yfragmental vertical sectional elevation.through the front portion of the finished hat, showing the elastic hatband on the outside of the crown and the elastic sweat band on the innerside of the crown.

Numeral 6 designates a hat made of any of the conventional hatmaterials, such as felt, cloth, straw, paper, wool, paper toyo, papertoyo bangkok, hemp, cotton tape braid sewed into a body, wool clothstrips sewed into a body and all other braids that can be sewed into abody. The invention herein described, while not finding a utility asgreat as in mens hats, may be applied to ladies hats.

Numeral l designates the crown and numeral 8 the brim, numeral El anouter elastic band, usually briefly referred to as the hat band, andnumeral I8 an inner elastic band, usually referred to as a sweat band.The elements, so far referred to herein, are of conventional form, withthe exception that the hat band and sweat band are made of elastic orresilient material.

The invention pertains specifically to a method and means of making thelower portion of the hat crown and the inner portions of the brimelastic or resilient. This means that the jointure between the brim 8and the crown l are made so as to be elastic or resilient. With theseparts made resilient, the lower portion of the crown 1 and the innerportion of the brim 8 may be stretched sufciently to change the size ofthe hat, at least o-ne size; that is if the original size were 6 and thehat can be easily stretched by the purchaser to become a size 7 hat.This operation of stretching is one that is so simple and so slight thatthe purchaser will not be aware of the fact that he has to any extentdistended the crown or brim. 'Ihis ability to stretch or to becomedistended or of elasticity or of resilience, is caused by the followingstructural modification of the crown 'l and the brim 8. In the jointureof the crown l and brim 8, in both the crown 1 and brim 8 are formedcorrugations, which are continuous between the cro-wn l and brim 8.These corrugations extend upwardly in the crown 'l about one-half inchand radially in the brim 8 about the same distance. These corrugationsare spaced about one-eighth of an inch apart throughout the periphery ofthe crown l and brim 8. These perforations or protuberances in the crownl are covered by the elastic band 9, so that they will not be externallyvisible. They are covered on the inside of the brim by the elastic sweatband I0. The corrugations in the crown may be indicated by the numeralII and the corrugations in the brim by the numeral I2. The corrugationsII and I2 are formed with a die of the crown and brim. In the preferredform the corrugations extend upwardly from the brim and outwardly fromthe crown. The specic shape of the corrugations I I is not materialsince, as has been indicated, they are covered by the elastic band 9.The shape of the corrugations I2, since they are visible on both the topand bottom of the brim, are preferably formed in a spear or triangularshape, the point of the spear or triangle graduating into the brimproper radially outwardly from the jointure between the crown and brim.

The appearance of the crrugations on the top of the brim will be that ofprotuberances and the appearance from the underside of the brim will bethat of depressions. Obviously the depth of the depressions of theprotuberances and their number, together with the material of which thehat is made, will determine the limitations within which the size of thehat may be changed. Obviously the hat band and the sweat band of boththe brim and the crown would not affect the size diierence in the hat.

What I claim is:

1. A hat comprising a crown and a brim, the latter secured to theformer, corrugations formed in both the crown and brim and an elastichat band secured to the crown.

2. A hat comprising a crown and a brim, the latter secured to theformer, corrugations formed in both the crown and brim, lsaidcorrugations communicating with each other and an elastic hat bandsecured to the crown.

3. A hat comprising a crown and brim, the latter formed integrally withthe former, small corrugat'ions formed in both the crown and brimJ saidcorrugations communicating with each other and extending upwardly fromthe brim and outwardly vfrom the crown, the corrugations on the brimgraduating into the brim and having a spear shape, said corrugationscommunicating with each other and extending completely around the crownand brim, leaving substantially no space between said corrugations, anelastic hat band secured to the crown, so as to produce an elastic.jointure between-said crown and brim.

` WILLIAM KATZ.

